I pay the same nothing a month as most other bloggers. And yet, I am held back from having thousands of viewers due to not being a no-life loser. Like Tobold.

He challenges us with this outrageous taunt:

If you feel that my blog having a lot of readers gives me an unfair advantage in a battle of opinions, all you have to do is to open your own blog, work hard on it for 6 months, and you can have thousands of readers too.

Well I've been blogging for over two years and where are my thousands of readers? Clearly blogging is overtuned and needs some balancing. To start, I suggest what I will call the "Troll Buff" in which all bloggers can make additional posts every day, trolling each other, as a way to increase readership. On top of this, there should be an across the board reduction in the number of grammar rules by at least 5%. Finally, readers should be given an attention buff, allowing them to better survive long, pointless posts.

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I find that the blogs considered popular are indeed good blogs. However, if I were to read blogs in a vaccuum and pick the ones *I* thought would be popular, I would probably guess wrong. I wonder if popularity spawns popularity. Like if enough people reference such-and-such blog, you have to subscribe, or you're a noob and don't know wtf people are talking about.

The only fair way to deal with the problem of elitist bloggers and their imba writing skills is to reward each blog post with a suitable emblem.

When a blogger has collected enough emblems they should be rewarded with one week of epic readership, with readers forcibly redirected away from the likes of Tobold & Gevlon to the blogger who has put the work in.

@Kurt: I would have responded to your claim of hypocrisy, but you are either a terrible writer or intentionally writing poorly to be confusing. Either way, it doesn't motivate me to be super helpful nice guy.

Well, Tobold, aka Gevlon if you prefer, does have very selfish opinions and often writes about himself (Morrows n Slackers for example). But he knows how to pull attention and his ideas, like Undergeared and Gankers (PvP) are rather fun and well thought.

Back when web publishing meant coding pages by hand, if you really knew what you were doing you could set up a guestbook to let people comment on your site. We had editorial quality back then because it was *hard*.

These days, it's so damn easy to hit "post" that nobody needs to actually think about what they're saying. It's just a blog lol.